How a month of abstinence can lead to 'meat disgust'
www.bbc.com
There are some surprising impacts of cutting out meat, even for a short period, which can carry on well beyond the end of abstinence.
  • ThirdConsul
    10·
    13 hours ago

    Of the 40 participants, 28 reported an increase in meat disgust.

    A study on a group of 40 is an anecdote at best, a waste of resources at worst.

    Reporting on it in on a big news website should be a crime, as it’s just a clickbait.

    • usernamesAreTrickyOP
      23·
      13 hours ago

      The article also site other studies too. (It calls the N=40 preliminary early research)

      • ThirdConsul
        7·
        13 hours ago

        From another study with N=700:

        We measured self-reported meat consumption, meat disgust (by self-report and Implicit Association Test),

        IAT is phrenology of social studies. You can discard it as garbage. If a study is using IAT as methodology, it’s garbage done to gain some publication points.

        You can read more about IAT: https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/1015-5759/a000778